Travelodge Inverness

... in the swimming pool all day, just can't win sometimes...<br><br>Sunday I was driving home, and got up early and was met by an equally intense frost... I missed the mist over the river, but it was pretty, honest.<br><br> <br><br>If the drive up was autumnal ...

Hey there! Well it's hard to believe that we're already halfway through Scotland, in an week we'll be in Amsterdam, the week after we'll be in Paris and the week after that we'll be back home and Josh will be back at work ! <br><br>So today began early after a hearty brekkie of porridge (yes say after me 'that's nooowt how ya make poorrridge!') Mercifully the weather held out on us through the day - our first stop was Loch Clooney (no relation to George!) with some beautiful views of the ...

... It's about 24 miles end to end and about 1/5 miles from side to side. Despite our best Aussie haka, Nessie didn't come out to visit. <br> Further along the Loch to where we are staying tonight AND tomorrow night - two nights in one place, how amazing! We're in a 4 bed room with our own ensuite - our room for those playing along at home? Braveheart of course! We're heading off soon to a Highland History performance, then back to the hostel for some ...

... leaving at 7:55 the next morning. I would be at Oxford around 17:00. The 20:25, as it turned out, had been completely booked. The only thing the ticket office woman could suggest was to ask a train steward if there turned out to be empty seats, or if I could stand between the rail cars. Of course, since I had left my mobile at the hostel, I had to call my professor from a pay phone to tell him that I would be, at the very least, missing class the next day.<br><br ...

... later. <br><br>Next morning had to get up sort of early-ish to grab out breakfast in the castle. It was really nice sitting in the dinning room with all these portraits of the owners hanging on the wall, felt like I was a Lord or something. Breakky done time to hit the road and we soon arrive at the Queen's estate which you might know by the name of Balmoral. We had a great time wondering the grounds and exploring some of the castle (the bit we were allowed to go ...

It took us awhile to get from Glasgow to Inverness but boy was the train ride beautiful. More rolling green hills, tall ancient stone towers, and i;ve never seen so many sheep. Inverness is a very small town but it still has 50 churches and 50 pubs (well balanced so our tour guide told us). The River Ness runs through the town which is overflow from Loch Ness. I thought it was called Loch Ness Lake but Loch is Scottish for Lake so Loch Ness ...

(Originally published at http://www.troysgonewalkabout.com)<br>< br>A long day of driving beckoned, which we felt was necessary in order to get some appreciation of the rugged Scottish landscape. After scraping the ice off the car&#8217;s windscreen we crossed the Firth of Forth parallel to the iconic Forth Rail Bridge and across to St Andrews. Though we were again under a clear blue sky the idea of a round of golf at the Old Course didn&#8217;t seem ...

I think I remember that Grandma & Al and I stayed at Lomond Castle while here, but that memory just came to me and I thought I'd better enter it before I lost track of the memory! I remember it stayed light out until very late at night because we were a bit far north.